Bonnie Brinton Anderson, Anthony Vance, Jeffrey L. JenkinsInformation Systems Department

Brigham Young University

Brock Kirwan, Dan BjornnDepartment of Psychology & Neuroscience Center

Brigham Young University

It All Blurs Together: How the Effects of Habituation Generalize Across

System Notifications and Security Warnings

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Habituation

Generalization

Generalization of habituation

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RQ1. How does habituation to notifications generalize to novel security warnings?

RQ2. How warnings be designed to be resistant to generalization?

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Ecological validity

Behavioral experiment

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